Between 2015 and 2025, academic freedom declined in 50 countries, whereas only 9 countries experienced improvements. In the period 2015–2025, several countries have experienced substantial and significant declines in all dimensions of academic freedom.

oggi su @ilmanifesto analizzo la fase di guerra in cui siamo entrati, a doppio strangolamento e doppia tregua, e i margini di manovra che si prospettano ilmanifesto.it/pace-lontana...

Il Corriere is arguably the daily that has hosted the largest number interviews with PM Meloni. Meloni's the PM who declared that Trums says things the others think but don't dare say. She has often defended MAGA culture and values. The wind is turning www.corriere.it/esteri/26_ap...

After wishing Trump a Nobel for Peace, and following hours embarrassed silence, while contemplating the crushing defeat of her friend Orbàn, the Italian PM seizes the opportunity to take distance from Trump and criticize his words on the Pope.

4 days ago: Trump calls Hormuz tolls "a beautiful thing", floated a "joint venture" 3 days ago: "They better stop now" 2 days ago: Vance boards Air Force Two, offers "the open hand" Today: naval blockade. The U.S. is now blockading the Strait of Hormuz to open it

NATO's Secretary General Rutte can't avoid smiling while underlining that Russia lost 20,000 soldiers in just 3 weeks. A smile on cannon fodder that says a lot, as if Putin's definition of victory proved sensitive to casualties

Su Substack oggi provo ad usare la lente di genere per una lettura femminista della guerra e dei negoziati naufragati a Islamabad. francescostrazzari.substack.com/p/il-negozia...

NATO's Secretary General Rutte can't avoid smiling while underlining that Russia lost 20,000 soldiers in just 3 weeks. A smile on cannon fodder that says a lot, as if Putin's definition of victory proved sensitive to casualties

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia was freed on March 16 after spending more than a year in an ICE jail in Texas. Kordia explains that while in ICE custody, she suffered her first-ever seizure and was taken to the hospital, where she was "chained like an animal" to a bed.

I'm convinced that he has doomed us to decades of random terrorist events and with every hospital, bridge, powerplant, and university - he makes those targets more viable when terrorists return the violence.

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

stanotte un nuovo attacco, questa volta sul più prestigioso politecnico iraniano, alma mater Mariam Mirzakhani, prima donna a vincere il Fields in matematica. Non sono più effetti collaterali, ma un pattern preciso. Ne scrivo sul mio canale substack: open.substack.com/pub/francesc...

#Algeria passes revised law criminalising French colonial rule: “Under the revised text, Algeria no longer calls for compensation . . .” #France READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_...

"Tell me what Trump said about Nato one more time..." www.theguardian.com/world/middle...

ggi sul canale Substack #uqbaria scrivo dell'ideologia che guida l'uomo che Trump ha indicato come il primo ad aver voluto la guerra francescostrazzari.substack.com/p/il-ministr...

su Il Manifesto provo a leggere il no di USA Israele e Argentina e l’astensione di europei e Brics al voto ONU sulla tratta transatlantica di schiavi africani come “il peggior crimine contro l’umanità” come una seria divisione nell’ordine internazionale ilmanifesto.it/i-crimini-pa...

oggi su Substack provo a unire alcuni puntini attorno al dibattito sulla memoria pubblica e i crimini del passato in Italia francescostrazzari.substack.com/p/un-crimine...

Despite the reluctance of the United States and Europeans, the UN General Assembly on Wednesday proclaimed the African slave trade as the most serious crime against humanity, a fight led by Ghana which hopes for apologies and justice www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...

Wind change in Italian politics The referendum that Meloni's rightwing govt wanted on the judiciary to change the Constitution ended up in a massive turnout and a defeat. Some 14 million Italian voted NO, 12 voted YES. The social pact may be broken, but the Constitution resists.

Acabo de firmar el manifiesto impulsado por la asociación Acción Contra el Odio contra el asedio medieval que está sufriendo Cuba. Apoya tú también la denuncia a Estados Unidos ante la ONU por intento de genocidio del pueblo cubano. ¡FIRMA Y PÁSALO!

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?" Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.

Air Force Academy Prepares Ideological Overhaul, With Erika Kirk Bringing “Bold Christian Faith” Eye-opening reporting by @acampbellnews.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/03/19/a...

BOMBSHELL! Netanyahu just casually admitted on live TV that there will be a GROUND INVASION of Iran. The air strikes were just the beginning of a massive, devastating regional war.

While the official aim of Israel’s war on Lebanon is clear – complete disarmament of Hezbollah – Israel is drawing itself into the same trap as the US in Iran, writes @yezidsayigh.bsky.social @carnegiemec.bsky.social on the @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social blog.

Spoken like a man who knows his most devoted Christian supporters are only on his team because they expect him to hasten Armageddon.

There's a version of Realism where what matters isn't your relative gains, or even your relative losses — it's your allies' relative losses. Still looking for its proper theoretical name. Anyone? #IRtheory #Realism"

Iran is today launching attacks with greater precision than in the early days of the conflict, following Washington and Tel Aviv’s strikes on its South Pars terminals. When you bomb the world’s largest gas field, you’re setting the stage for a global energy war.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Yes

“Reliance on AI among faculty is also on the rise, with observers pointing to the dystopian possibility that the college experience may soon be reduced to AI systems grading AI-generated homework – “a conversation between two robots”.” www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

3/ "The Pentagon is moving parts of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system from South Korea to the Middle East, according to two officials."- Washington Post What China couldn't do for ten years. Trump forced to do it to protect Gulf Kingdoms. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Iran: "Tehran’s residents woke up to a skyline shrouded in black smoke and acid rain clouds after Israeli airstrikes set ablaze key fuel depots serving one of the Middle East’s largest cities" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Pete Hegseth is a very dangerous person. He’s a white Christian nationalist and has the arsenal of the United States government at his disposal and a permission slip from President Trump to deploy carnage wherever he wishes against whomever he wishes.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

War-a-Lago

Oggi sul @Manifesto mia analisi sulla logica espansiva della guerra. Nel frattempo: - sempre più colpite le infrastrutture energetiche - colpito un impianto di potabilizzazione - colpiti data center Microsoft ilmanifesto.it/una-guerra-s...

Trump’s claim that Iran has sought to negotiate a ceasefire with the U.S. are a “huge lie,” a senior Iranian official told DropSiteNews. Yesterday Abbas Araghchi had told NBC News that Iran has not had any communications with the U.S since the breakdown of negotiations last week

As the war widens, Donald Trump’s explanations for his own decision to launch another war in the Middle East have changed several times

In case you were wondering. #catastrophicsuccess Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likelihood of civil war and violent leader removal in target states and fails to reduce the probability of conflict between intervening states and their targets

kind reminder

African states are more and more vocal about this www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Anthropic versus Pentagon. Reposting this classic essay on Factions of Capital within the Trump admin ht @benbraun.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/70sb...

da Città del Messico ho scritto questa analisi/racconto (“Il mercoledì delle ceneri”) dei narcoblocchi che hanno sconvolto il paese e delle tensioni legate a nuove traiettorie politiche nazionali e nell’emisfero occidentale ilmanifesto.it/messico-il-m...

#Egypt has denied reports it offered #Ethiopia #RedSea access in exchange for flexibility over the #GERD, as tensions rise over #Nile water rights & #RedSeaSecurity. #Somaliland #HornOfAfrica

Here is Rep. Al Green holding up a sign that according to CNN's Manu Raju said "Black people are not apes” before Steve Scalise pulled it down

Call for PhD in Human Rights, Global Politics and International Studies at @SantAnnaPisa (with a new track in IR) Deadline May 15, 2026 www.santannapisa.it/it/training/...

oggi sul Manifesto una mia riflessione sull'ingresso nel quinto anno di guerra in Ucraina ilmanifesto.it/un-filo-nero...